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name: "Jim Siedow"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 June 1920"
died: "20 November 2003"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T10:32:25.551658+00:00"
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# Jim Siedow

Actor. Born 12 June 1920 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. Died 20 November 2003.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 June 1920, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
- **Died:** 20 November 2003
- **Also known as:** Jim Seidow, James Nash Siedow

## Biography

Jim Siedow (1920–2003) was an American actor. He began acting in high school drama classes and later performed in theatre productions in New York City. After serving in the US Army Air Forces during the Second World War, he worked in radio in Chicago and then moved to Houston, Texas, where he established one of the city's early community theatres and directed stage productions including the first local staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Siedow made his film debut in the 1971 drama The Windsplitter. He is best known for portraying Drayton Sawyer, also credited as the Old Man or the Cook, in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and its sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). His other screen credits include the television film Red Alert (1977), Hotwire (1980) and an episode of Amazing Stories (1985). He died in Houston from complications of emphysema.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Texas Chain Saw Massacre* (1974), Fi1m 87, as Old Man — [page](https://film.one/film/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre.md)

## Also known for

- *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2* (1986), The Cook
- *Amazing Stories* (1985), Totzke

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